Grouping

Review and use the following best practices for groups.

• Group objects

  There are four ways objects are grouped: vCenter tags, vCenter folders, VMware Aria Operations groups, and VMware Aria Operations tags.

• VMware Aria Operations also provides Application

  Application is a group, but with a specific purpose and limitation. The strength is to do multi-tier applications with just one group. The limitation is that there is no dynamic membership.

  • Use Groups for dynamic membership

  • For multi-tier apps, use Application

• Naming Convention

  Use consistent naming conventions throughout dashboards and widgets to make items easily identifiable and understood.

• Do not create too many groups

  Too many groups will cause added noise and make usage more complicated; keep usage to a minimum.

• License Groups

  Like other VMware Aria Operations groups, you create a license group of objects as a way of gathering those objects for data collection. In this case, you are associating the objects with a product license